100 Most Popular Songs for Fingerpicking Guitar: Solo Guitar Arrangements in Standard Notation and Tab

This is a great book for trying out your hands on solo fingerstyle arrangements. It'll help you not only play these songs, but also get a good insight on how harmony works for whatever song you wish to try out. So many Indian people wish to learn how to play fingerstyle guitar techniques, and yet, nobody wants to go the right way. YouTube can only take you so far. Real knowledge lies in books like these. Go ahead, buy it! You will not regret.

I am a guitar teacher and I love guys like Tommy Emmanuel/Doyle Dykes/Joe Robinson. The problem is that learning their songs takes weeks and months and I am happy doing that. This book offers much more achievable versions of popular songs that most audiences will recognise so I reckon is a quick and easy repertoire builder.Could these versions be more complex or sophisticated? For sure yes but wit would take ages to learn them. I teach people who work full time and they haven't got time to learn the super complex arrangements so this book is a winner for me.I think that guitar players of any style including rock should have a small repertoire of solo songs to be able to perform just with the guitar instead of always relying on backing tracks or having to rely on other band members.

A wonderful book. Great varied song choices. Nobody is going to love 100% of the songs here, I myself will give maybe half of the books content a good go. Quite a big heavy book, but let's face it, it contains 100 transcribed songs in tab and standard notation. Easy to use, stays open on selected songs no problems. I prefer ring binding but no problems with this excellent book staying open at any page in book. So don't agree with those saying the book doesn't stay open, mine does. I own many guitar tab books (100 plus) and this is set to be one of my most used. I wish all music books had this high standard. Perfect perfect perfect.

I'm disappointed with this book. The fingerpicking arrangements are very basic, many just a bass note on the first beat while the fingers play a single line melody. Its a shame because there have been some great, and not too difficult, arrangements for fingerstyle guitar for many of these tunes that although being accessible to an upper beginner/intermediate guitarist sound full and complete (and more challenging than they really are), eg Tommy Emmanuel did a good arrangement of House of the Rising Sun that is not too challenging.The book is titled Fingerpicking but it is very basic fingerpicking and not what I expected. Good I suppose for a beginner just getting to know the guitar but If you are looking for something that will stretch you and progress your ability, buy another book or find music/tabs online (hint: many good guitarists on YouTube provide transcriptions of their arrangements for a nominal fee).

I have to say I didn't expect it to be so thick. It is a good book with many good old guitar classics everyone know and some new hits too like Edd Sheran or Lala Land.I look forward to playing them all. There is a regular music notes part where you have the lyrics and chords and below you have a tab for fingerpicking. I was there were strumming patterns too for your chords, but hey, you can't have everything. Very good book. Money well spent.

Lots of familiar tunes arranged as fairly straightforward solo pieces for guitar. Although you could use these as accompaniment to singing, they are self contained pieces (I could see this being a useful resource for a teacher). Most arrangements have a fairly traditional alternating bass with the melody line on top 3 strings with just enough additional notes to show the harmony. Most pieces are mainly in the first position with left hand fingering written in the musical stave. The songs are from the last 60 years with only a few from the last decade.I got this book yesterday and have tried out about 10 of the pieces. These are really nice arrangements for the most part, simple enough to get into quickly but cleverly arranged to let the melody sing out and give a sense of the original recording. This style works best for songs with a strong memory and harmonic structure and I can vouch for The Pink Panther, Crazy, Yesterday, Skyfall, City of Dreams, Creep, and Goodbye Porkpie Hat. There is some variation in difficulty level: some of the arrangements of familiar songs (such as the SImon and Garfunkel ones) are perhaps over simplified, and Recuerdos de l'Alhambra looks like it should be in a much more advanced book!Excellent value and I know this will give me lots of pleasure, and (hopefully) give me insights into improving my own arrangements.